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Examples of Welsh Influence on America

American Welsh History

i can think of a couple of welsh influences on america with out pandering to the aclu , welsh brought the industrial age to ameica , ie they sunk the first coal mines lit off the first bessmer converters , started harvard and yale and bryn mawr , now they did fall down on teaching the heathens the finer points of rugby , which morped into american football for want of a better term ,

Slavery and Apaches

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great i just got some avgas to throw on the fire , it the anglo saxons , ie the people from europe should be taken to task how about the spanish people , no i dont mean the latinos i mean the people from spain , didnt they put the whole continent into bondage ? should they stand up and pay first, after all, they discoverd the continent and aftyer three hundred years they are still third world , the american indians enjoy a far higher standard of living

Slavery and Apaches

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i,v been meaning to say somthing about the mails on here some are out of context and its hard to follow who said what first , and you cant realy follow whats beeing said in context , that being said my views on nations that lost in the human struggle , victors write history losers are just that , i did not lose my heart at wounded knee or the death camps in europe in the forties , and i,m not starving to death or involved in tribal warfare in modern africa , in fact im part of the human race that seems to be progressing , for good or bad and i wont see the end of this progression , dont worry about things that you have no control over , if i sent a $100 to the un do you think that one penny would go to where its needed ?

Yank apologists!! They need to get a grip

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i agree with 99% of garys rant even if it is a bare faced bid to get the nye bevan bardic chair for the politicaly incorrect , but i draw a line on the statement about kerdiffs wealth built on slavery , people from all over the world came to wales to make money from king coal there were lots of germams poles spanish and italians that came to work the mines , i,ll give him willing slavery but its not as bad as those accross the channel in bristol

Iconic Yanks from a Welshmans perspective

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while i,m at it the movie zulu( went to the kerdiff premire ) watched so many times i forgot i work with a bunch of retired marines 20 years plus , and when i told them i was from wales the first thing out of their mouths was zulu , the last night of boot camp they take you to the movies and let you smoke and eat candy, and the movie they show most often zulu in their words the greatest small unit action in history they also remember the gloustershire regiments action fighting a rear guard action to cover marines , the only foreign unit to recive the presidetial unit citation of course the glousters are a border regiment in it boyo

Iconic Yanks from a Welshmans perspective

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audi murphy his mam named him after a german car?

Iconic Yanks from a Welshmans perspective

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hang on a bit wheres richard petty , chuck berry paul robeson mahalia jackson and her son reggie , sgt bilko the marx bros, carlos heathcliff annie oakley dear mr colt , donny osmond and crew , tom cruise , (ponty lad) twice removed , his genres didnt go far did they ,

BUNDLING. Are you for it or agin it.

American Welsh History

there was a pratical side to this most farms were far between and a suitor had to travel a distance to find a bride , so unable to return home and be in church of a sunday the future groom slept over , and went to capel at his future wives capel

arms for taffs on the northwest forntier

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hi garry i dont make but one hunt a year now , and if the truth was said i realy dont like the gamey taste of what i was shooting , most of the dear meat we mix with pork and make sausage , and i was giving most of it away , as for birds they banned lead shot and i,m not going to ruin a good browning 12 gauge barrel for a duck limit of five a day , my son snatched my remmington 700 with a redfield scope he dropped a buck eight pointer on his first shot of his first hunt when he was fourteen so he,s hooked , i got a marlin 22cal m1 carbine copy , with a 30 shot clip give me a couple of beers and some tin cans to shoot at and i,m happy

arms for taffs on the northwest forntier

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invest in large caliber guns,, the us army is testing a longer barrel with a 6.62 mm cartridge and in the next ten years i can see them returning to a two gun system most likley a 30 06 as for the knife laws well i got my views on that but i would get the racist tag , althought people saw this coming years ago the nation slept , me too , but it looks like these fears are coming home to roost , i,m glad im in america and a gun owner , although this statement will raise a few hackles dave